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Economic Downturn (Unemployment)

Did the hon. Lady, in the course of conducting her Select Committee scrutiny, receive any representations—given the fact that we are in the midst of this appalling economic crisis—on the wisdom or otherwise of a local government reorganisation in Devon at a time when we should be concentrating on much greater priorities? Does she agree with me that it is finally time to give the quietus to the twitching corpse of the Devon unitary, and the even greater absurdity of the Frankenstein of an Exeter unitary, so that we can concentrate on those priorities?